[Gllug] [OT] Asking to be spammed?

[Benedikt Heinen]

> > What I've *started* doing now is to assign addresses to specific 
> > subdomains that get created for the purpose  (i.e. my current sender 
> > address is in a subdomain I'm using for mailing lists). Newer addresses 
> > have a sub-domain per address - this has the advantage that if I want to 
> > turn it off, I kill the sub-domain, and the spammer cannot even look up 
> > the mx for that address any more...
> 
> Needing to go to those sort of lengths is sort of the wrong solution. I
> don't obfuscate my email address, have used the same address for over 6
> years and get perhaps one spam message per week.
> 
> It's perfectly possible to build effective filtering rather than having
> to deal with a whole rack of email address and subdomains.

I agree that you can do a lot with effective filtering (my main email 
address has 3 spamfilters on it; and I have stopped looking at email if at 
least 2 of them agree it's spam...

Still, having the possibility to cut off spam by using an approach like mx 
subdomains has advantages in terms of bandwidth and local resource usage.

Besides, once you've set up using a database for MX info, creating and 
deleting subdomains is a snap...





Benedikt

   ALLIANCE, n.  In international politics, the union of two thieves who
     have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that
     they cannot separately plunder a third.
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